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10.4: Completely disable Spotlight
While I agree with the original poster's sentiments -- Spotlight should be an option not a requirement, especially considering how problematic it is for some users -- I think the posted method for disabling Spotlight is pretty drastic and potentially harmful. And, as stated, a simple permissions repair will probably revert the Spotlight behavior, so it may not even be particularly effective. I, too, however, am bothered by Spotlight and really wanted to return old-style find-by-name searches. Hey, don't scream at me. It is and should be a personal preference, and Apple has made it not so.
10.4: Completely disable Spotlight
What I want to know is: when will Spotlight start working? I installed it almost 48 hours ago, and it has never yet found a single file unless I opened that file first. I'm glad I installed it to another drive, so that I'll be able to restart in Panther, because, so far, Spotlight fails utterly. It fails to find files I've just copied. It fails to find files I'm looking at, right there in the folder. As far as I can tell, it has only found a file after I opened it. The rest of the fricking folder full of files may as well be invisible.
10.4: Completely disable Spotlight
i have a big problem. i usually do search on LAN volumes. The server is running MacOS X 10.3.x. The system on which we do the search is using MacOS X Tiger. With MacOS X Panther, when we did a search, we got a result in about 5 seconds (LAN 10/100Mbit). Now, with Spotlight, we get an answer in about 15/25 seconds! Now, i don't understand if turning off spotlight, i could get back a search mode via namefiles instead indexing the content files. |
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